Showing posts with label Oscar and Lucinda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar and Lucinda. Show all posts

Friday 27 April 2012

Some short comments about Peter Carey's work

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2012
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27 April

* I wrongly resisted Oscar and Lucinda (1988) for years - just because of that awful original Faber & Faber cover illustration*

* Illywhacker (1985), too, is amazing

* Who would play the role in any film? I suspect Anthony Hopkins (if they did it in time)

* How much does the multi-level pseudo-documentary nature of The True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) owe to forebears, such as, maybe, Wilkie Collins and The Woman in White?

* Wouldn't The Tax Inspector (1991) be brooding - and chilling - as a film?

* Bliss (1981) is just that

* And, yes, I do have some catching up to do - all in good time!


End-notes

* And, to judge from Wikipedia, the original Australian edition.